The core collaboration/innovation cycle

Once sponsors have committed their teams to the process of improvement through data and analytics, and candidate areas for improvement have been selected, then the AA&AI COE team and the functional team (that is, the sponsors, stakeholders, and subject matter experts) can begin to analyze the operational area, the processes, the data, the organizational resistance to change, and the feasibility that the required data exists today and in a historical form. The AA&AI COE team can explain to the functional team the analyses that will be experimented with and undertaken and the analytical pipeline and models that will be developed.

The functional team will need to understand the process changes, the new mode of operating, and the resulting changes to their personnel needs and daily functions.

After a common understanding of the area to be analyzed and improved through data and analytics has been developed, the functional team and...